Lee Warren Brown, Ph.D.

Contact

LBrown37@twu.edu

Biography

The teaching interests of Lee Warren Brown, PhD, focus primarily on firm strategy. His classes discuss how firm decision makers navigate the market through analysis of both the internal and external environment, formulating strategies and finally implementing strategies. His research examines nonmarket strategies of firms. Dr. Brown studies firm interactions with government and the firm performance implications of those actions. His current projects explore firm lobbying behaviors, foreign firm’s cross-border lobbying behaviors in the US and CEO political activism. In addition, his secondary research stream focuses on CEO ethical leadership in organizations. In his spare time, he spends time with his family and enjoys reading, traveling or playing basketball and tennis.

Education

Ph.D., Business Administration- Management, The University of Texas at Arlington
M.B.A., Business Administration, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
B.B.A., Management, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

Research Interests

Corporate Political Activity; Foreign Lobbying; CEO Political Activism; Lobbying Effectiveness; Ethical Leadership

Latest Articles

Indirect corporate political strategy in cross-border acquisitions: influence of political affinity on target-dependent firm lobbying
Multinational Business Review (2024)
Dinesh Hasija, Mirzokhidjon Abdurakhmonov , Lee Warren Brown, Ru-Shiun Liou

Who obtains political exemptions? An attention-based analysis of steel tariff exclusion requests
Journal of International Business Policy (2024)
Vivienne Born, Lee Warren Brown, Dinesh Hasija

Managing human capital in major league soccer: an empirical study of internal development and external acquisition
Employee Relations (2024)
Christopher Harris, Lee Warren Brown, Mark B Spence

Political lobbying by foreign firms: A new firm-level data set
Journal of International Management (2024)
Dinesh Hasija, Lee Warren Brown

The effect of ethical leadership on nurse bullying, burnout, and turnover intentions
Journal of Nursing Management (2024)
Jason R Lambert, Lee Brown, Thanayi Lambert, Caleigh Torres Nava

Who Needs the Government? An Analysis of Managerial Ability and Corporate Political Activity
Group & Organizational Management (2023)
Marwan Al-Shammari, Lee Warren Brown, Soumendra Banerjee, Christopher Harris

Understanding social media presence and financial success in digital competition
Journal of Strategy and Management (2023)
John DeLeon, Lee Warren Brown

Specializing in Politics: Effects of Specialization, Social Capital, and Human Capital on Corporate Lobbying Effectiveness
Human Performance (2023)
Lee Warren Brown, Christopher M Harris

How and why? A review of corporate political activity predictors and actions
Group & Organizational Management (2022)
Lee Warren Brown, Abdul A Rasheed, R Greg Bell

EMNCs' cross-border M&As and political distance: Does corporate political activity matter?
Thunderbird International Business Review (2022)
Lee Warren Brown

You are drafted: the role of employee and manager human capital on employee career advancement
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance (2022)
Christopher M Harris, Lee Warren Brown, Marshall W Pattie

Does Human Capital Pay? The Influence of Leader Human Capital and Employee Human Capital on Leader Bonus Earnings
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance (2021)
Christopher M Harris, Lee Warren Brown

Political Animosity in Cross-border Acquisitions: EMNCs' Market and Nonmarket Strategy in a Developed Market Journal: Multinational Business Review
Multinational Business Review (2021)
Ru-Shiun Liou, Lee Warren Brown, Dinesh Hasija

Everyone must help: performance implications of CEO and top management team human capital and corporate political activity
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance (2021)
Christopher Harris, Lee Warren Brown

Integrating relational systems theory with ethical leadership: how ethical leadership relates to employee turnover intentions
Leadership & Organizational Management Journal (2021)
Dennis J Marquardt, Jennifer Manegold, Lee Warren Brown

An exploratory study of coping mechanism and professional quality of life in Northeast Texas EMS personnel during COVID-19
Australasian Journal of Paramedicine (2021)
Anastasia Miller, Lee Warren Brown

Nonmarket Responses to Regulation: A Signaling Theory Approach
Group & Organizational Management (2020)
Lee Warren Brown, Irene Goll, Abdul Rasheed, Wayne Crawford

The effects of person-organization political misfit on employees: A conceptual model.
Business and Society Review (2020)
Lee Warren Brown, Jennifer G Manegold, Dennis J Marquardt

Corporate Political Activity and Free Riding Under Market Uncertainty: An Investigation Of Tarp Funding. Business and Society Review
Business and Society Review (2019)
Lee Warren Brown, John Deleon, Abdul A Rasheed

Ethical Leadership Perceptions: Does It Matter If You're Black or White?
Journal of Business Ethics (2018)
Dennis J Marquardt, Lee Warren Brown, Wendy J Casper

Theology and Corporate Environmental Responsibility: A Biblical Literalism Approach to Creation Care
Journal of Biblical Integration in Business (2018)
Mark Benjamin Spence, Lee Warren Brown

Predictors of Foreign Corporate Political Activities in United States Politics
Global Strategy Journal (2018)
Lee Warren Brown, Mahmut Yasar, Abdul A Rasheed

Internally Funded Projects

The effect of ethical leadership on decision making and organizational commitment of nurses
TWU Center for Women Entrepreneurs | 2019
Research Grant